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Newspaper
Duchesne Courier
Location
Duchesne, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1922
Page
3
Uintah Basin correspondence reports Ashby Thateler and C J Wahlquist in Salt Lake on legal business. Banks in Myton Roosevelt and Vernal in good condition. Oil and railroad prospects draw attention. Moffat tunnel and Uintah Basin rail links teased. Community updates include road work, re recording marks, and local moves.
Hanna residents and friends share visits and travel notes from Friday to Sunday. Frank Savage stayed in Hanna Saturday while Ton Draper gave rides. C A Richards and wife visited Thomas Riads. Harl Giles returned from Heber after winter classes. greetings also go to Jack Mason, Tom Giles, Joelle Wonald, J W Muir with cattle. New ranger R Osterler from Nephi arrives and makes good impression.
Mr Wilford Abbot of Janneta visited Utahn on Saturday. Mr and Mrs George Carrell of Apaleo visited daughter Mrs Ray Mayhew on Sunday. Celia Olsen Helen Ross and Jo Shanks visited Redcap Sunday. Mr and Mrs Fenton Keel moved to Mt Home for the summer. Rex Burnham of Pleasant Grove is visiting friends in Alaba. Ellis Olsen left for Price last week after reaching Duchesne and is improving.
Mr and Mrs R A Powell moved to Salt Lake recently with Bishop Todd clerking in their store during absence. Mrs 1 L Woldaway and children visit at Alonzo Perry’s. she plans to move to Price soon. Joseph Murphy returned from American Fork area and moves there with family. the Murphy farm hosts the exchanging family. Roads are in bad condition after a slide. Murphy waited a day. R A Nielsen and wife of Price visited to take daughter Lela home from a few weeks’ stay. Irvin Wardle and Mrs Allie Wardle of Roosevelt visited Samuel Suminarell Friday. Farewell party for Nenty Nash as they move away for the summer. Al Burton off for Mr Wyman. George Roberts home from shearing corral. health improved. Myo and Mrs Joseph Timothy Sr returned from Vernal trip. Cedarview residents attended the event in the valley Saturday. Mary King works for Mrs Todd. other locals are helping.
Whiterocks girls dramatic group staged a three act play then danced at the hall. Miss George Dudley won free tuition again after completing study at Wilcox Academy. Local clubs, visits, and travels are noted along with river work for high water prep and a benefit dance for Mr Jensen.
The community mourns the sudden death of the seven month old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Mahaffey due to paralysis of the stomach. Funeral services were held at the family home with Mrs. Holt and Mrs. Fowler of Altonah conducting. Interment followed in Bluebell cemetery. Sympathy is extended to the bereaved family.
May 11 party hosted by Mrs. Gardner Goodrich for Lois Atwood and local children, with Bluebell visitors and family guests including Mr and Mrs Wred Case. Community notes mention crops, gatherings, and farm life in Arcadia and Midview with various local families and weekend visits.
TRIDELL oer Mrs. Mac Green has been serious ly ill for nearly three weeks. Her husband W. T. Green returned from work to be at her bed side. A welcome home party was given for Mr and Mrs Leo C Christensen returning to live here. Mrs Alice Morrill white improved but confined to bed. Pepard Seed representatives met with farmers to discuss alfalfa seed production.
A collage of quips and conversational lines from various sources including the Louisville Courier Journal and Boston Transcript appears in a humor column. Snatches touch on poetry, romance, credit ratings, manners, and everyday scenes from social life.
A Birmingham Age Herald excerpt shows a student disrupting a lecture with a sharp retort about being misled. The hulking youth claims the professor misrepresented his near sightedness, prompting a tense exchange in the rear of the hall.
A young visitor, not a polished gentleman, showed keen interest in the local school and would drop in to ask the pupils questions. He pointed to a bright pupil and asked for the capital of Holland, prompting a snicker from the class as the teacher frowned.
At a wedding breakfast George Ade quipped that a happy marriage is where the husband endures discomfort without complaint and the wife endures discomfort without complaint.
An edictor recalls meeting Barrie in London at a dinner where the playwright comments on the uneven reception of his works. Barrie quips that some plays are bigger successes than others, with playful wordplay on Peter and Fan to describe output.
The wife recalls her husband speaking in his sleep using terms of endearment for Euphemia. He explains Euphemia is his alter ego’s name, revealing a humorous mishearing or double meaning in the exchange.
A fragmented reflection argues happiness is costly and education shapes thought. It praises diligence over idleness and warns that wealth or fame cannot be bought, noting a schoolboy philosopher who questions why the boy stood on the burning deck.
A Moscow Pravda report recounts villagers making a leaf and grass bread mixed with one third flour. The green indigestible loaf causes swelling, worms, and death after prolonged consumption as famine worsens in Soviet Russia.
The Philadelphia Ledger reports fathers talking about their sons at various colleges as the football season nears. They joke about Orange and Blue Blue and Gray and color loyalties, noting rivals and the idea of shared colors in the end.
In the Birmingham Age-Herald report the judge notes burglary as the charge while a prisoner decries the label as “human,” explaining a human fly climbs buildings without ladders. The dialogue clarifies expectations about stealing items found above ground level.
In Wayside Tales a note recalls Lord Babbington instructing a new colored servant. The lord tells Zebe to answer indifferently when summoned, and later the servant responds with a comical mispronunciation, saying “Sly Gawd, what does you want Row?”
Fragmentary note reports a sheriff taking husband’s clothes in a curious case. The text hints at confusion and a Brown family involved, with a suggestion the husband wore the garments at the time. Details are unclear due to OCR errors.
Fragmentary dialogue shows a dispute over church attendance and propriety. The speaker accuses another of poor behavior during church hour, while a reply suggests the other may be aware of the issue and could display decency in an exchange.
A torn text scene shows Little Bess and a father exchanging lines about a purchased present. The rough script hints at a domestic moment with limited readable names and actions.
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